Statistical Physics of Fluids
Subtitle: Basic Concepts and Applications
By: by V. I. Kalikmanov
Series: Texts and Monographs in Physics; Texts and Monographs in Physics
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9783642075117; 9783662045367
Subjects: Physical organic chemistry; Thermodynamics; Physics
Description: The book focuses on the main physical ideas and mathematical methods of the microscopic theory of fluids, starting with the basic principles of statistical mechanics. The detailed derivation of results is accompanied by explanation of their physical meaning. The same approach refers to several specialized topics of the liquid state, most of which are recent developments, such as: a perturbation approach to the surface tension, an algebraic perturbation theory of polar nonpolarizable fluids and ferrocolloids, a semi-phenomenological theory of the Tolman length and some others. The book addresses researchers as well as graduate students in physics and chemistry with research interests in the statistical physics of fluids.
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Table of contents: title: Ensembles in Statistical Mechanics; title: Method of Correllation Functions; title: Equations of State; title: Liquid; title: Vapor Interface; title: Perturbation Approach; title: Equilibrium Phase Transitions; title: Monte Carlo Methods; title: Theories of Correlation Functions; title: Density Functional Theory; title: Real Gases; title: Surface Tension of a Curved Interface; title: Polar Fluids; title: Mixtures; title: Ferrofluids; title: Empirical Correlations for Macroscopic Properties of Argon, Benzene and n-Nonane; title: Angular Dipole Integrals; title: De Gennes; title: Pincus Integral; title: Calculation of gamma D and gamma Delta in the Algebraic Perturbation Theory for Polar Fluids; title: Mixtures of Hard Spheres; title: References; title: Index.